notes for 2019-03-26 Dataverse Community Call

[Philip Durbin]

Here are the notes from https://docs.google.com/document/d/115Ji4YARGFYDfFQByxpNu7z_3KQj20AzJJ5LpMCIXbU/edit?usp=sharing

2019-03-26 Dataverse Community Call

Agenda

* #dataverse2019 Updates
* Release Updates
* Metrics Updates
* Community Questions

Attendees

* Danny Brooke (IQSS)
* Gustavo Durand (IQSS)
* Tania Schlatter (IQSS)
* Jim Myers (QDR)
* Pete Meyer (HMS)
* Courtney Mumma (TDL)
* Amber Leahey (SP)
* Sunil Manikonda (SP)
* Paul Boon (DANS)

Notes

* #dataverse2019 Updates
   * June 19-21
   * Registration opens mid April
   * Proposal form is open
* Release Updates
   * 4.12 coming in next few weeks
      * User management APIs: user merging, change username
* Metrics Updates
   * New repo: dataverse-metrics: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-metrics
      * Can aggregates metrics from multiple installations
* Community Questions
   * Other <5 , > 4.12 releases? Probably
   * Mix MDC w\ dataverse-metrics? (GD answered)
   * dataverse-metics w\ custom time period? Some flexibility
   * DANS - extended metrics API, maybe PR
      * That would be of interest we’ve done some custom ‘verse’ level here: https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/metrics/?selection=
   * User email verification at Sign Up (SP question)
      * Planned for 5; in a release soon?
      * Users can verify already; but verify status not used
      * SP wants to offer institutional login and validate user accounts
   * Generating API token for users in DV (question related to Data Curation Tool) (SP question)
      * Allow users to click on the tool in Dataverse and get an API token
      * Jim already has written this API generation script ; could reuse this for configuration button (put PR out there for this)
      * Still need to discuss the messaging to inform the end - user
      * Isn’t a way to invalidate it; could add time stamp to the messaging in the GUI

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin